Respect for the rule of law key to real growth

This past week, I met a young entrepreneur at the Kigali Convention Centre during the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). At 28, Malik was not born when the RPF was formed in December, 1987, but he could not miss the milestone, he told me. His shoe-making factory in the outskirts of Kigali town, could do without him for two days as he joined thousands of local and foreign guests at the three-week long celebrations of a political party that has dominated leadership in a country of slightly over 12 million people. Politics is not his cup of coffee, but he had to show solidarity with fellow countrymen.